President's Newsletter
May 2021
10 May 2021
(Last updated: 11 Jan 2022 10:17)
Welcome to the spring edition of the BDIAP Newsletter. I hope that you remain well and are finding life starting to return how it was. Some changes however will remain and, if there is any good to come from the pandemic, it has facilitated progression of teaching using the digital formats.
Manchester Pathology 2021
We of course want to have face-to-face meetings as soon as possible but the decision had to be made in relation to our joint meeting with the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland to be entirely online. The program for this meeting is now complete, with many exciting and topical subjects, including keynote lectures from Dr Nafisa Wilkinson on gynaecological pathology and Dr Sarah Aitken and Professor Sarah Coupland on liver and ocular pathology respectively. It is also encouraging that, despite the restrictions of the pandemic, significant numbers of abstracts have been submitted. Click or tap on the image below to register!
November meeting on Urological Pathology, 5th-6th November 2021
Looking further ahead to the Autumn, plans for our annual November meeting are also almost complete, this meeting being on urological pathology in association with the British Association of Urological Pathologists (BAUP). For those who specialise in urological pathology, and even for those who have to undertake limited work in this field, this is a very strong program with 3 experts hopefully flying in from the United States to participate. At present, this meeting is scheduled to be our first face-to-face meeting for two years and I hope that I will see you there and be able to shake some hands!
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This will also be the date of our Annual General Meeting, which for 2020 occurred online at the end of March 2021. Council continues to work across its various sub committees (Education and IT, Meetings, International and Finance) and the minutes are available for members on our website. Of note, we are pleased to note that Glasgow 2020 not only broke even (with over 4000 delegates) but produced a small surplus that will be recycled into our charitable and educational activities.
BDIAP Workshops
With the advancement of using digital pathology as aid for education, we are also starting up a new initiative with regular short courses on specific aspects of cellular pathology - the BDIAP Workshops. These sessions will commence at the end of summer and I am starting this off with a session on reporting small diagnostic samples in lung pathology, hopefully something that even the more general pathologist will find of relevance. Please keep an eye on the BDIAP website for details of the programme and we will be in touch with our members in due course with details of how to register. If you have any topic that you wish covered, please get in touch.
Overseas
In relation to our international charitable activities, most have been postponed for 2020 due to travel restrictions but the Bryan Warren Bosnian School of Pathology is going ahead as a remote programme on soft tissue pathology by Cyril Fisher and Khin Thway, so many thanks to them for giving their time.
Central IAP
We are, of course, part of the IAP as an international network and Professor McMahon, our Past President and Secretary of the IAP, has kindly provided a short article highlighting the involvement of our Division within this global academy. Of note, plans are well underway for the next IAP Congress in Sydney, Australia, in October 2022.
Read Professor McMahon's Article
Member Articles
As we plan to provide more regular BDIAP news updates on our website, we would like to encourage you to send in your local news and developments which you would consider relevant to the BDIAP activities and pathology practice. We would aim to include in each of our news bulletins selected brief from the membership under the new regular heading “From our Members”.
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AwayDay
Finally, an AwayDay is now planned for October to review the past decade (the last strategy day was in 2011), and more importantly to make plans for how the Division will move forward in the 2020s, so any views are welcome as to how our educational portfolio might be improved.
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